I'm attempting to write a directory monitor in java but I'm stuck. I'm trying to find something in Java that is like FileSystemWatcher in .NET but I don't think java does. From what I read is that you have to continually poll the directory for changes. What I would like to know is that are there any events and/or signals raised when a changes are made so that one could catch and process them? If not, could someone explain how to simply poll the directory for changes?
abhishekkhandel 0 Newbie Poster
stultuske 1,116 Posting Maven Featured Poster
never really thought of that ...
what you could do is create a log file with all the data about the dir you'd like to check, and have a thread continously compare the current state with the state in the log file, but I have no doubt there are for better, easier and more efficient ways to do so.
ithelp 757 Posting Virtuoso Banned
No event gets generated when directory is changed.
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